Recently, I took a 5 gig drive from a Toshiba laptop and put it into one
of my 3400c laptops. Now I'm trying to load 8.5 but after
initialization, the OS installation stops about halfway through with the
note that the new hard drive can't be used. Then I verify it and the
message is : Test
The drive may be going bad. I know that's not a positive way to put it,
but it could be just a bad drive. You really should stick with a drive
that came from a Mac when possible. It saves a lot of hassles in the
long run, or so I've heard.
I've copied the System Folder to the drive and tried
Recently, I took a 5 gig drive from a Toshiba laptop and put it into
one of my 3400c laptops. Now I'm trying to load 8.5 but after
initialization, the OS installation stops about halfway through with
the note that the new hard drive can't be used. Then I verify it and
the message is : Test
I've formatted 40gb drives with OS 7.6.1
Macs shipped with larger than 5gb drives in the Mac OS 8.5 era.
On May 1, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Fluxstringer wrote:
I forget, was OS 8.5 able to format a drive that big ? Could you
try formatting with OS 9 ?
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Problem has been avoided, more or less. I switched back to the 2 gig
drive that came with the 3400c and still had 9.1 on it. The 5 gig went
to my Toshiba temporarily, as the drive just snaps in and out of it
without a huge overhaul, and I loaded Mandrake 9.x on it. I wanted to
get linux on the
Fluxstringer wrote:
Recently, I took a 5 gig drive from a Toshiba laptop and put it
into one of my 3400c laptops. Now I'm trying to load 8.5 but after
initialization, the OS installation stops about halfway through
with the note that the new hard drive can't be used. Then I verify
it and the
Problem has been avoided, more or less. I switched back to the 2 gig
drive that came with the 3400c and still had 9.1 on it. The 5 gig went
to my Toshiba temporarily, as the drive just snaps in and out of it
without a huge overhaul, and I loaded Mandrake 9.x on it. I wanted to
get linux on the
I have been looking for a cheap wifi for my 1400.
I just snagged a Lucent Orinoco Silver for Mac from eBay for $ 10.00
They have been going for $ 20 or more. The downside is the seller
only ships by UPS ground. Much cheaper by mail but I am still saving.
have not seen any cheaper.
The seller
Fluxstringer wrote:
If it had been a bits vs bytes issue, there would be an 8X
difference. Since there's only a 5% or so issue, I don't know what
the differences mean, and haven't found any enlightenment in Apple or
the web yet.
jp
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ASP in OS 9 doesn't report it like that. So I
Software update: Acrobat Reader 3.0, ResEdit 2.1.3 seem to work
fine, although I still don't know how to use ResEdit.
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go to resexcellence.com They have a lot of cool desktop tweaks to
impress your Mac using but scared friends and tutorials to show how.
Just
Ge' wrote:
John,
LineFeeds/word processing: I think Caleb's suggestion is good. If you
have Word 5, ...
All I have for the 190 is Claris, but I'll try the RTF idea.
If you're more on the engineering side, I think you'll love Tex-Edit
Plus. It determines paragraphs intelligently when removing
Hi,
i did install a Debian on a 3400 and a Yellowdog on a Kanga.
You can not boot from CD on the 3400. You must boot with BootX, the
installation kernel and the installation ramdisc. All is included
on the CD.
The latest Yellowdog will probably not work on older Macs like
the 3400. I am in
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